Shred Like a Demon on this 8-String Ibanez!

How do you make a heavy metal guitar even more raw? Add a string. Already got seven strings? Try eight. With the Ibanez RGIR28FE Iron Label electric guitar, one of the best metal machines on the market gets a bit lower, with a mind-blowing 8th string. Throw in a solid basswood body, EMG active humbuckers, and you've found the recipe for one wicked axe.

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Heavy Metal Heritage

Ibanez RG electric guitars have decades of heavy metal street cred. If you're looking to crack some skulls at your next head-banger, try adding the raw depth of an eighth string to your scales. Dual EMG 808 humbucking pickups -- the first production 8-string pickups ever made -- add that rich fullness to riffs that metalheads crave. In addition to the standard volume knob and 3-way selector switch, the RGIR28FE is equipped with a kill switch that's not only useful for taming a runaway effects loop, but can be utilized for a stunning strobe-like effect too.

One Heck of a Neck

Designing a 27" scale neck for an 8-string electric guitar is no simple task, but that's exactly what Ibanez has achieved with the Nitro Wizard-8 five-piece maple and walnut neck. While understandably wider than your typical lesser-stringed model, the RGIR28FE's neck is thin and sports a large 15.75" fingerboard radius so it's comfortable to play, despite its size in the upper octave. It's also got a sleek polyurethane finish to reduce friction as you're blazing up and down eight strings of glory. And it's reinforced with a titanium truss rod, so can pitch-bend with a brick and it won't bend the neck -- though of course you'd never do that to your 24 unmarked jumbo frets and rosewood fingerboard.

Ibanez Non-New Product Warranty Information
Ibanez Electric Guitars and Basses have a 1-year warranty on NEW instruments only for the ORIGINAL purchaser with a Sales Receipt. All used products are not under warranty.

If you have additional warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer at 800-669-8262

Ibanez RGIR28FE Iron Label 8-String

The Ibanez RGIR28FE Iron Label Electric Guitar is designed for heavy metal guitarists who desire eight string beef. With a basic design of the RG series, Ibanez applied their expertise as leaders in 8-string guitar luthiery, modded and tweaked their way to building the perfect 8-string metal machine. A basswood body, rosewood fingerboard and classic pearl dot inlays complete the visuals, and the jumbo frets grant license for all the string-bending you can bring.

As the originators of the thin, fast neck, Ibanez equips the RGIR28FE Iron Label with the Nitro Wizard-8 neck which reaches a higher level in terms of player comfort. The increased mass that eight strings require has been ingeniously shaped to feel as natural as possible to the six-string trained player.

The EMG 808 pickups in both bridge and neck positions are a favorite in the 8-string world for their well-earned reputation of producing amazingly layered textures of distortion. And the performance enhancing killswitch puts you in command of a head-turning strobe effect. With the purposefully Spartan Iron Label, you won't find a feature here that doesn't contribute directly to waking the dead.

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"First 8 string"

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So this was my first 8 string. I am currently making payments on this beauty. It came extremely fast 2 days tops. When first saw it I was in love the feel of the neck so smooth and flat, the ease of the fretboard and feel of the body. its a little on the heavy side compared to other 8 strings ive played. Im switching the pickups my opinion to muddy.

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"my first 8"

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Stepped right from 6 to 8 with this weapon. Being an Ibanez it is extremely comfortable. Fast neck and not overly heavy. Everything met my expectations except for the killswitch, it's basically an on/off switch. Small gripe. BRUTAL guitar

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